Mary Douglas Quotes

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Myself

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Action
  • Simple
  • Information

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Stop
  • Working

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Kind
  • Place
  • New

• I believe we're the party of small business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Small

• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Unprecedented

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Quality
  • Fool

• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Food

• Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I would say I'm pretty minimal. Comfort is key. So during the day, it's usually, like, jeans and a sweater. But for evening wear, I'll dress up a bit.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • World
  • City
  • Player

• Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Great
  • Organization